ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 382
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri May 30 16:19:10 PDT 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO AIA AWARDS 2008
by Brian Libby
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With 40 different awards given by the San Francisco
chapter of the AIA, and only a few repeat winners among
them, there were plenty of happy architects by the Bay
this year.
Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica
firm, Morphosis, received one of four honor awards for
excellence in architecture. Morphosis shared the award
for the San Francisco Federal Building with the local
office of SmithGroup.
With its raft of "green" features, it seems the
Mayne-designed structure could also have won in AIA SF's
sustainability category. The building has a double skin
for heightened thermal properties and a tall thin form
to maximize daylight. Its elevators even skip numerous
floors to force people to walk - and encourage them to
congregate - in large open stairways. It all adds up to
a building vastly more efficient than energy codes
require.
Most of all, Mayne says there is an integrity to the
design, rooted in sustainable programmatic goals, that
can help its peculiar, futuristic form make sense to
even those who don't follow the careers of
"starchitects."
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Rafael Vinoly Architects - 2008-09 Grants for Research in Architecture
The firm will award as many as five independent research grants
of up to US $60,000 each for original research focusing on
transformations in the built environment within dynamically
changing societies. Proposal deadline is August 1, 2008. Recipients
will be notified in November 2008.
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Two New Tents
by Philip Drew
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In Frei Otto's landmark examples, the tent fabric was
largely glass. Using the term "tent" with admitted
looseness, here are two recent examples in the
continuing romance of modern expression with tensile
engineering. At the Est.dio Municipal de Braga, the
sheltering tent is made of concrete, while at the Burj
Al Arab Hotel, the tent covering is on its side, a great
white spinnaker defining a spectacular atrium. - Editor
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People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
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Shah Kawasaki Architects in Oakland, California - Eckols &
Associates in Austin, Texas - Nicholas Hare Architects in
Strasbourg, France - Rafael Vinoly Architects in San
Francisco, California - Cannon Design in Richmond, Canada -
NBBJ in Gilbert, Arizona...
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